Weird DV capture/transfer problem at DVinfo.net

Jeff Toogood · January 25th, 2005, 08:40 AM

Don't know if this is the right forum for this or not.

I am having a weird DV transfer problem lately. Every once and awhile one of my tapes that is captured has unusable footage, it is all garbled and looks like a bad tape or something.

However when I watch the tape in the camcorder it plays fine. It even appears to play fine during the capture (Vegas 5). However the file that is created is unusable.

The weird thing is that if I play the tape in the camera for a second and then just press capture in vegas (as opposed to capture tape), it will capture it fine. Does this indicate a time code error?

I'd say this is happening on about 1 out of every 15 tapes I capture.

PS, I use my Sony TRV38 to capture all my tapes.

Any ideas?

Rob Lohman · January 26th, 2005, 03:19 AM

That is a bit weird, however I don't see how this could be related
to time code. It seems like it is either mis interpreting the data
coming from the machine or perhaps you are having tape problems
(but somehow the display is masking that).

I would run a tape cleaner and perhaps try a different firewire
cable. How clean is your system you are running this all on? Did
you update to the latest version of Vegas 5?

Also try a demo of www.scenalyzer.com, see if that has
the same problems.

January 25th, 2005, 08:40 AM	#1
Jeff Toogood Major Player Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: St.Thomas, Ontario, CANADA Posts: 428	Weird DV capture/transfer problem Don't know if this is the right forum for this or not. I am having a weird DV transfer problem lately. Every once and awhile one of my tapes that is captured has unusable footage, it is all garbled and looks like a bad tape or something. However when I watch the tape in the camcorder it plays fine. It even appears to play fine during the capture (Vegas 5). However the file that is created is unusable. The weird thing is that if I play the tape in the camera for a second and then just press capture in vegas (as opposed to capture tape), it will capture it fine. Does this indicate a time code error? I'd say this is happening on about 1 out of every 15 tapes I capture. PS, I use my Sony TRV38 to capture all my tapes. Any ideas? __________________ Toogood Studios

January 26th, 2005, 03:19 AM	#2
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	That is a bit weird, however I don't see how this could be related to time code. It seems like it is either mis interpreting the data coming from the machine or perhaps you are having tape problems (but somehow the display is masking that). I would run a tape cleaner and perhaps try a different firewire cable. How clean is your system you are running this all on? Did you update to the latest version of Vegas 5? Also try a demo of www.scenalyzer.com, see if that has the same problems. __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors